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...Rose Tattoo" is one cut that effectively showcases this combination. Co-written by Byrne and W. Colon, "The Rose Tatto" is set to a Bomba/Mozambique beat with somewhat depressing Spanish/English lyrics that reflect on the impossibility of dreams and humanity: "And they were imagining Roses/As if life itself were a dream/Is a gift not a reason for living?/Not enough, not enough, so it seems." The chorus then switches to Spanish with the refrain: "Brinde a la Rosa/Y al hombre que no vive/Perdido en un sueno/en un atmosfera imposible," reflecting again the hopelessness of illusion...
...Appoint a council researcher historian. The council often debates issues endlessly without any clue about what precedent has been set by previous councils. The council debated ROTC for two weeks, and no one ever mentioned that the Harvard student government had already declared a position on ROTC in 1982--mostly because no one knew. The "historian" (a work-study job) should have a few days before each debate to prepare an information packet for council members on the upcoming topic. The result would be a better informed council...
Although MacFarquhar declined to comment on the exact size of the endowment, he said that the minimum amount required to set up a new senior faculty position at Harvard is $1.5 million. That figure was raised to $2 million in July, but the increase did not affect the new chair because negotiations began in the spring of 1988, MacFarquhar said...
...School will set up a new $1 million endowment designed to relieve the financial burden of its graduates who choose to enter public interest law, officials said yesterday...
Annenberg, who has donated large sums to many other universities including a $20million grant to set up the Annenberg School ofCommunications at the University of Pennsylvania,earmarked his donation specifically to commemoratehis 40-year friendship with Kaufman...